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The 2nd edition ART EXPERIMENTAL SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL FRESH STREAM

A canvas for the boldest minds in art and experimental cinema.

When:

November 10th-11th, 2023

PRESELECTED

COMMUN
COMMUN

France

2022

Runtime, min

8

Animation, Experimental,

Director:

Jonathan Rochier

Date & time:

The crowd can be seen as a sum of individualities but also as an autonomous acting power with its own logic and structure. Commun is an organic, social, and sensitive experience of a mass of pins, its behavior crosses the three modalities: community, communitarianism, communion.

ANIMA # 2
ANIMA # 2

Portugal

2023

Runtime, min

2

Animation, Experimental, video art

Director:

Vasco Diogo

Date & time:

Anima # 2 is an experimental animation that shows 6 hand drawn human like figures in a constant row. Their movement, similar to a video dance, is created by the nature of the drawing, both by form and color. The apparent stillness of the figures confronts the viewer, as if the latter is being watched and questioned about its physical condition as an observer.

DOWNSTREAM
DOWNSTREAM

Germany

2022

Runtime, min

12

Experimental, Art, Environmental, Water

Director:

Esther Weber

Date & time:

Everything is in motion on the water surface. Scenes along a river, that reflects our world.

KATAU. BEYOND TATTOOS
KATAU. BEYOND TATTOOS

Spain

2023

Runtime, min

3

Advertising, Experimental, Music Video, Art, Electronic, Music, Urban Art

Director:

Carmen Gascó Sanz

Date & time:

A new style of graphics, unique in every way.

ACQUA E GHIACCIO
ACQUA E GHIACCIO

Italy

2023

Runtime, min

11

Experimental,

Director:

Pietro Gardoni

Date & time:

80 clips of small parts of frozen rivers. Every image is like an abstract painting in motion.

SMOKING KILLS.
SMOKING KILLS.

Netherlands

Pages

88

Screenplay,

Writer:

Curtis Roy Worrall

Date & time:

A group of people do a research project to test a new cigarette before it comes on the market. The group of people dwindles down as many of the group die on the research project. The cigarettes tested are healthy, but there is a conspiracy to sabotage the research.

SILENCE
SILENCE

Russian Federation

2021

Runtime, min

2

Experimental, Short, Student,

Director:

Julia Shlenskaya

Date & time:

Freudian attempt to respond to internal emotions and existential questions through dreaming, relying on hearing, visuals and feelings.

SATURDAY MORNING LIVE/ REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA EPISODE/ US
SATURDAY MORNING LIVE/ REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA EPISODE/ US

United States

2022

Runtime, min

18

Student Documentary

Director:

Dr. Lisa Spencer

Date & time:

Five days after receiving my PhD, I was invited to serve First Response in the Republic of Georgia. I had come up with the idea for a multicultural children’s television program. I was suddenly evacuated due to Covid so took this raw footage with Elene and quilted together a first episode for the show.

JUXTAPOSED LAND
JUXTAPOSED LAND

Japan

2023

Runtime, min

8

Animation, Experimental, Short,

Director:

ALIMO

Date & time:

I imagined a world where I existed and my loved ones did not. I imagined a world with loved ones and without me. One day, such a world will surely come. I want to be the landscape of my loved ones.

THE GREAT GRAND GREATNESS AWARDS
THE GREAT GRAND GREATNESS AWARDS

Denmark

2022

Runtime, min

57

Experimental, Other, Art film, Absurdism, Comedy, Experimental film, Indie film, Arthouse

Director:

Jo Hedegaard

Date & time:

3000 people are NOT gathered in the Asteroid Theatre on the night of the big award show.

AKIKO MOTOFUJI BUTOH DOCUMENTARY FILM
AKIKO MOTOFUJI BUTOH DOCUMENTARY FILM

Japan

2022

Runtime, min

70

Documentary, Feature, Other, Music, Dance

Director:

Shuichi Inohana

Date & time:

Akiko Motofuji was the wife of Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of Butoh, and she herself was a dancer.

INFINITY CARE
INFINITY CARE

United States

Pages

23

Student, Short Script, Sci-Fi

Writer:

Autumn Karen

Date & time:

A mother and her three year-old-daughter with disabilities connect in tender, ordinary moments through an extraordinary futuristic service that defies corporal limitations.

BEING IS VALUE
BEING IS VALUE

China

2022

Runtime, min

5

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student,

Director:

Meng Zhao

Date & time:

A young man feels existential boredom because of the real-life constraints of academics, gender temperament, and the repetitive nature of life, which lead to emptiness and lack of self-identity.

OUTSIDE IN, LIFE OF A FIGURE MODEL
OUTSIDE IN, LIFE OF A FIGURE MODEL

United States

2023

Runtime, min

21

Documentary,

Director:

Esther (Etti) Inbal

Date & time:

Bobbie Golden is a 75-year-old figure model with 50 years of experience. “Outside In” explores her journey as a revered muse, showcasing her dedication to evocative posing and the vast collection of artworks that immortalize her. Interviews with artists highlight Bobbie’s impact on their creative journeys. Through a visual journey of paintings, sculptures, and sketches, viewers witness the diverse interpretations of her essence and the enduring power of art.

TAKE YOUR SPACE
TAKE YOUR SPACE

Czech Republic

2023

Runtime, min

76

Documentary,

Director:

Karolína Alvarez

Date & time:

The documentary familiarizes us with the development of the movement from its beginnings to the present day with a focus on its essence of rebellion and resistance.

SEDUCTIVE DEVOTION
SEDUCTIVE DEVOTION

United States

2023

Runtime, min

7

Experimental, Short, Other, Experimental, Romance, Short

Director:

Destin Gerek

Date & time:

In a society where narratives of male perpetrators and harm inflicted upon women prevail, "Seductive Devotion" emerges as a powerful experimental short film presenting an inspiring alternative.

DISCONNECT
DISCONNECT

Germany

Runtime, min

7

Experimental, Short,

Director:

Teymour Tehrani

Date & time:

Here HE (27) is. A disappointment! As he observes himself in the gloomy light of his living room mirror, the young man starts to hear intensifying voices from his past. He has failed everyone – especially himself.

WILDFIRES
WILDFIRES

United States

2023

Runtime, min

2

Animation, Experimental,

Director:

Peter Hriso

Date & time:

My work focuses solely on sharing my discoveries during my investigations. While I may start with a rough idea or plan, the work guides me toward solutions and helps me sort through any puzzles. Technology plays a crucial role in this process. There are no ulterior motives or hidden messages in my work.

BODY ISSUES
BODY ISSUES

United States

2023

Runtime, min

72

Experimental, Feature, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Experimental

Director:

Marjorie Conrad

Date & time:

As Jane struggles to establish a connection with her body, she gradually loses herself in a labyrinth of inner confusion.

MIRROR SKY
MIRROR SKY

Israel

2021

Runtime, min

45

Documentary, music, art, women

Director:

Sara Siegel

Date & time:

Ruth Wieder Magan critically acclaimed voice artist in a documentary journey through textured soundscapes creating a reflection and prayer on inclusivity in her conflicted hometown, Jerusalem.

LEARNING TO DANCE
LEARNING TO DANCE

United States

2023

Runtime, min

23

Documentary, Experimental, Short,

Director:

Cat Ashworth

Date & time:

Learning to Dance explores the topic of aging and the challenges we will all face if we are lucky enough to live a long life. Filmmaker Cat Ashworth explores the loss of identity as she transitions to a new period of life.

DANCE TO DEATH
DANCE TO DEATH

United States

2022

Runtime, min

5

Student, horror

Director:

Celia Cooley

Date & time:

In which death is danced into the grave.

LOVE, INSTANTLY!
LOVE, INSTANTLY!

New Zealand

2021

Runtime, min

24

Experimental, Short, Other,

Director:

Neža Jamnikar

Date & time:

Love, instantly! is a kitsch work by Neža Jamnikar. It is an experimental movement film that explores the phenomenon of kitsch – the aesthetics, as well as its complex application to, and an adaptation by socio-political and religious spheres. Cheap objects on display imitation, pretence, and phony feelings nostalgia, sentiment, and safety routines, clichés, and hierarchy of taste fantasies, nightmares, and archetypes creating political kitsch God’s country, class division, and cultural elite It is a marching propaganda. A Kinkade's Christmas Cottage.

LITTLE YELLOW FLOWER
LITTLE YELLOW FLOWER

Taiwan

2021

Runtime, min

30

Experimental, Short,

Director:

Chien-Ping Lin

Date & time:

Photo Retoucher A-nan returns to the old house that saddens him. How will he restore the loving beauty of the yellow flowers that once bloomed in the courtyard?

ANA MENDIETA IF
ANA MENDIETA IF

United States

2023

Runtime, min

4

Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media,

Director:

Jaewook Lee

Date & time:

"Ana Mendieta if" (2023) is a riveting cinematic homage to the influential Cuban-American artist, Ana Mendieta. This film masterfully traces the trajectory of her pioneering work in performance art, especially her profound connection with nature.

THE GUARDIAN OF HUMANITY.
THE GUARDIAN OF HUMANITY.

Netherlands

Pages

81

Screenplay,

Writer:

Curtis Roy Worrall

Date & time:

An alien attack on the world has an unlikely saviour!

IT'S ALL IN THE EQUATION.
IT'S ALL IN THE EQUATION.

Netherlands

Pages

87

Screenplay,

Writer:

Curtis Roy Worrall

Date & time:

A serial killer uses a mathematics code to find his victims.

ŌTA SHŌGO'S THE WATER STATION
ŌTA SHŌGO'S THE WATER STATION

United Arab Emirates

2022

Runtime, min

87

Experimental, Feature, Drama, Silent Film

Director:

Abhishek Majumdar

Date & time:

‘The Water Station’ is a film adaptation by playwright, director, and NYU Abu Dhabi professor Abhishek Majumdar of a play by Japanese playwright Ōta Shōgo, written in 1981. It is about our experience of the world and how it is shaped by what we have to leave behind, who we can leave with, and what happens when we meet others in our journeys.

A CHANT FOR THE BEES
A CHANT FOR THE BEES

Canada

2022

Runtime, min

8

Experimental, Short, Art

Director:

Bill Burns

Date & time:

A Chant for the Bees is a short film about my daily life. It contains a series of ordinary events as well as a visit to the amusement park. Original music is in the form of a Georgian Chant of the names of the 100 largest companies in the world.

THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON
THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON

Spain

2023

Runtime, min

2

Experimental, Art, Fantasy, Horror, Identity, Science Fiction

Director:

Manuel Fernández Ferro

Date & time:

The Lovers of Avignon is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.

THE TRAIN OF MEMORIES
THE TRAIN OF MEMORIES

Taiwan

2023

Runtime, min

5

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, experimental, fantastic, documentary

Director:

Chen Chih Ming

Date & time:

One day, when I opened the moisture-proof box which had been sealed for a long time. I found that it was loaded with film and picture that I had printed by myself in the past. I scanned and captured them one by one with a scanner, and edited them together. When I play it fast, the film looks like the scenery that outside the window of the train flashed across by my eyes. The train of thought which in my mind is to pass through the past that full of struggles and depressive memorise when I seeking self-identification. Through the images of broken memory, I constantly recombine them and collect the sounds of daily life. Finally it let me can released my mind from the bitter days to the better days, and lives brilliant that like a kaleidoscope every moment in my life.

I WISH YOU'D LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW
I WISH YOU'D LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW

United Kingdom

2023

Runtime, min

11

Experimental, Short, LGBTQIA+ drama, coming of age

Director:

Andrey Kryuchkov

Date & time:

Lucy and Sarah are hanging out together after school. they start developing feelings for each other which neither of them can process.

THE GHOST LISTENER
THE GHOST LISTENER

Netherlands

Pages

81

Screenplay,

Writer:

Curtis Roy Worrall

Date & time:

A gangster member acquires a supernatural talent.

"STEPS" PART 4
"STEPS" PART 4

United States

Runtime, min

14

Music Video, Dance

Director:

Mimi Garrard

Date & time:

"Steps" is part 4 of a larger work inspired by the music of Phill Niblock. Video by Mimi Garrard Dancer: Kate Jewett Costume: Mindy Nelson Musicians: Robert Poss (bass guitar) Susan Stenger (guitar)

ANIMA # 1
ANIMA # 1

Portugal

2022

Runtime, min

3

Animation, Experimental,

Director:

Vasco Diogo

Date & time:

This experimental and abstract animation reflects upon the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, following the structure of an hip-hop song and mixing plenty of digital hand-painted techniques. The style alternates between continuity and frame collision.

INCOGNITUM
INCOGNITUM

Germany

2022

Runtime, min

23

Experimental,

Director:

Sara Angius

Date & time:

Between the inside and the outside of a person, in this subtle, blurry border, we find a door and open it. A metaphysical, surreal journey begins, into the depths of the unconscious.

STITCHED
STITCHED

United States

2023

Runtime, min

6

Short, Student, Surealist, Drama

Director:

Cora Andreoli

Date & time:

Stitched is a surrealist drama following a young, mute, taxidermy collector and his struggles to communicate with a blind gardener whom he has fallen in love with.

PROFANED
PROFANED

United States

2022

Runtime, min

30

Short,

Directors:

Steven Paul Wolf, Ryan Simmons

Date & time:

Profaned explores the relationships between the homeless and society through expressionism.

ALOW
ALOW

Germany

2022

Runtime, min

28

Experimental, Short, Other,

Director:

Tanja Bombach

Date & time:

A hallucinatory, underground and dream-like night walk where three different escapist scenarios are taking place. Reflections on a state of mind of pervasive anxiety, loss of control and trepidation luring under the surface translated through movement, disguise and surroundings.

NĖÆDRA
NĖÆDRA

United Kingdom

2023

Runtime, min

7

Short, sci-fi, experimental, fashion, fantasy

Director:

Shelby Eames

Date & time:

When an alien soul from destroyed planet Merlershkö reincarnates into a human body, she finally remembers her past lives after a 2,000 year amnesic spell cast by her mother protected her from her memories.

COLLECTOR
COLLECTOR

Belgium

2023

Runtime, min

14

Experimental, Student,

Director:

Jeff Sermon

Date & time:

Voices travel through the air, they whisper stories.

ONE
ONE

Estonia

2021

Runtime, min

7

Experimental, Short, Student,

Director:

Sergei Kask

Date & time:

A guy from a dysfunctional family leaves home. On the street, he also does not feel that belongs.

PAGAN VIRTUES
PAGAN VIRTUES

Australia

Runtime, min

5

Experimental, Short, Student,

Director:

Kaylia Jade Mcgarry

Date & time:

A very selfish experimental film reflecting on my lust for shiny things in every way, shape or form.

I KILLED YOU A DOZEN TIMES
I KILLED YOU A DOZEN TIMES

Belgium

2023

Runtime, min

6

Experimental, Short, essay, poetry

Director:

Kris De Meester

Date & time:

Traumatised after a breakup you want to erase the other person. But whatever you do, the pain won’t go away. Out in the cold, on a strange new globe.

ROUGE
ROUGE

Belgium

2022

Runtime, min

78

Experimental,

Director:

Mieke Daneels

Date & time:

When the umbilical cord is cut between Rouge and her child, she struggles with an empty gut feeling, loneliness that triggers and anxious tension.

FIND A STYLE IN ANKANG CITY
FIND A STYLE IN ANKANG CITY

China

2022

Runtime, min

240

Documentary, Experimental, city, artist, culture, youth

Director:

Zhang Ge

Date & time:

I got on the train to visit my poet friend,I thought it was a good chance to try the one person shot.So me and my cam spent train journey together, and joined his part of working day in Ankang city. After graduating he went back home, a city near Hanjiang River, and tried to find his own style in there.

ALICE IN THE REAL WORLD
ALICE IN THE REAL WORLD

Bulgaria

2023

Runtime, min

30

Experimental, Short,

Director:

Ivan Abadjiev

Date & time:

Alice is a young girl who is going through a crisis in her personal life. Trying to overcome her problems, Alice goes through various difficulties. Challenged to find a way to herself, she is confronted with a reality she did not know or suspect existed.

WANTON
WANTON

Canada

2023

Runtime, min

45

Experimental, Music Video, Short, Horror, Music, Fantasy

Director:

Victor Dubyna

Date & time:

Wanton is an abstract and expressionistic spiritual horror-show about identity, self, repression, anxiety, nostalgia, and the digital age.

AUGUST MUSIC
AUGUST MUSIC

New Zealand

2021

Runtime, min

21

Experimental, Art

Director:

Phil Dadson

Date & time:

Harmony / dissonance : 31 days through the month of August 2021. Alternate daily dusks and dawns amidst Covid/climate/warzone chaos.

THE MODEL MINORITY
THE MODEL MINORITY

United States

2023

Runtime, min

2

Experimental, Short, Student,

Directors:

Ivy Akhidenor, Isabel Starr

Date & time:

A young woman struggles with body image and would do anything it takes to be perfect.

ZOMBIE
ZOMBIE

Not Specified

2023

Runtime, min

6

Student,

Director:

Dr. Lisa Spencer

Date & time:

A music clip

BABY, DOG, AND DOG
BABY, DOG, AND DOG

Korea, Republic of

2021

Runtime, min

35